1 Peseta Manresa

Manresa was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities forced to print its own emergency fractional currency after the Civil War disrupted the supply of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain coin circulation in loyalist-held territory pushed this responsibility down to the local level, producing an extraordinary proliferation of locally issued paper. The Consell Municipal's authorization of this note was administrative necessity, not monetary ambition.

Ramon Torra was a well-documented Manresa printer; the fact that the note was produced entirely within the town — designed, printed, and issued locally — makes it traceable in ways that many contemporary Catalan emergencies are not.